Mountoon Learn
The calm ABC and 123, for ages 2–5. One visit a day: a letter with Ollie, or a number with Momo. Then the screen is ready to be put down.
The app
Mountoon Learn is the second Mountoon app, and it stars the same six friends as the first. It is not on the App Store yet; everything described on this page is built and running today.
How a visit goes
The letter stands in the night sky as a constellation. Touch it and it glows and says its own name. Underneath is one short line, headed “Yours to say”, for you to read aloud.
Star to star, only the next one live. The stroke glides as your child reaches it, with one short chant a stroke. “Draw it for me” is on every page.
“Ollie is resting. See you tomorrow.” No score, no streak, nothing counting down, and nothing asking for one more. The Sky stays open whenever you like.
What's inside
Every uppercase letter from A to Z, and every number from 0 to 10. A visit is about three quiet minutes and four to seven pages, and it really ends. Seven visits — the letters M, S, A and T and the numbers 1, 2 and 3 — are open to every family, always, with or without a purchase.
Meet the letter, draw it star by star, then find it beside one other letter your child has already met. Nineteen of the twenty-six bring back an old friend from earlier in the pack. Each letter has an object of its own in a lantern circle — the moon for M, an egg for E, a tent for T — and six letters carry one of the Mountoon friends as a guest, on the letter of their own name.
The smaller numbers open with a dot card to take in at a glance, then count real things one at a time: a touch lights the nearest one, the chime steps up, and the moon counter follows. The bigger ones count in a ten-frame. Four to seven add a page where Momo asks for a number of berries and a touch sends the nearest one into his bowl — and once the bowl holds what he asked for, there is no way to give him too many. Zero is an empty basket.
Sixty-nine short recordings ship inside the app, and every one was listened to and approved by hand. It says one word at the moment of the touch: the letter's name, the number, the thing your child touched, or a friend's name. It never instructs, praises or narrates. The letter sounds stay yours — the line on the page spells them (“mmm”, “t-t-tent”), and the Parent area has a Sounds guide with one row for every letter. The voice is on to start with, can be switched off, and follows your device's silent switch. With VoiceOver running, the app says nothing at all so the two voices never talk across each other.
By construction, not by kindness. A touch either lights something up or does nothing at all. There is no red, no buzzer, no “try again”, no score, no streak, no timer and no praise either. If your child taps somewhere quiet and nothing happens, the app is working as intended — and after about seven quiet seconds the thing to touch glows softly on its own, weaker than the glow a touch earns.
Uppercase letters only: there is no lowercase yet. There is no tracing with a finger — a letter is drawn by reaching its stars in order. No colors, no shapes, and no numbers above ten. Letters are lines and stars; they are not dressed up as pictures. English only.
The two hosts
Every Mountoon app stars the same six friends. In Learn, two of them hold the door: Ollie takes the letters, Momo takes the numbers. The other four — Lumi, Niko, Pippa and Bubbles — turn up as a guest on the letter of their own name.
Wise, calm, protective
Ollie is the oldest of the friends and the last one awake, so the letters are his. He waits at the top of every letter visit while the stars join up, and at the end he settles down to rest until tomorrow.
Warm, sleepy, comforting
Momo is the biggest of the friends and the softest, and the numbers are his. He sits beside every count, holds the bowl when he asks for four berries, and rests at the end of a visit exactly as Ollie does.
The small print, in large print
No accounts, no sign-in, no analytics, no tracking and no third-party code. Nothing your child does in the app leaves the device. Works offline: every visit, every picture and every spoken word is inside the app. The one thing that reaches Apple is the App Store, for a purchase, and only from a grown-up's side of the gate.
No price, no padlock, no countdown and no “ask a grown-up” on any screen a child can reach. A letter this family has not bought answers a touch exactly like any other: it glows and says its own name.
Purchases, settings and every link out of the app sit behind a grown-ups gate — a sum spelled out in words, so it takes reading and arithmetic.
One visit a day, and the host rests afterwards. It is not a lockout: the Sky of all thirty-seven stays open whenever you like, and nothing counts down or asks for one more.
For the grown-up
Behind the gate, on cream instead of night: an optional age band (2, 3, or 4–5) that only leaves out the pages that would be too early; “Turn pages for me”, so a small child reaches the ending without having to find the arrow; switches for the voice, the chimes and the touch feedback; a count of the visits finished, which only you ever see; five tips for visiting together; and the Sounds guide, one row per letter, pitched at saying the sound rather than the letter's name.
Learn is built for VoiceOver, Reduce Motion and larger text. Every stage target is at least 88 points across, input registers on touch down so a resting palm changes nothing, and “Draw it for me” finishes a letter for a child who cannot yet tap in order.
Where the art comes from
“Every friend is drawn in code: vector shapes in Swift, written with an AI coding assistant. No image generators, no stock art. Made by one person in India.”
— Anurag, maker of Mountoon
Questions
There is no date. Mountoon Learn is not on the App Store and has not been submitted. Mountoon Stories, the first app, is with Apple now, and Learn follows it. When that changes, this page changes with it.
Seven visits — M, S, A, T and 1, 2, 3 — are open to every family, always, with or without a purchase. The other thirty open in one of two ways: a lifetime unlock, or a weekly plan. Both open the same thirty visits and both work with Family Sharing. The App Store shows the current price in your own currency on the purchase sheet, before you confirm anything; no price is written into the app. The terms of use spell out both, and support explains how to cancel.
Yes. Every visit, every picture and every spoken word is inside the app, so a plane, a car or a waiting room with no signal changes nothing. The one exception is the weekly plan, which checks in with the App Store around each renewal.
Nothing. No accounts, no analytics, no tracking. Progress, the age band and your switches stay in this app's own storage on this device, and deleting the app erases them. Read the privacy policy.
iPhone and iPad with iOS 17 or later. iPhone is portrait; iPad works in portrait and landscape. One app runs on both.
Write to hello@mountoon.com. Mountoon is one person, in India, and a real person reads every message. The rest of the small print: support · privacy policy · terms of use.